Creating a Volume on the Lightbits Storage Server

To create a volume on the cluster, log in to any of the Lightbits cluster servers and enter the lbcli create volume command.

Sample Command

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lbcli create volume --size="200 Gib" --name=1vol --acl="acl3" --compression=true --replica-count=2 --project-name=default
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Sample Output

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root@rack03-server72:~ lbcli create volume --size="200 Gib" --name=1vol --acl="acl3" --compression=true --replica-count=2 --project-name=defaultName UUID State Protection State NSID Size Replicas Compression ACL1vol c074cf03-83fb-4c15-a601-5444e798f51f Creating Unknown 0 200 GiB 2 true values:"acl3"
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Delete the created volume:

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lbcli delete volume --name=$VOLUME_NAME --project-name=default
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List Volume Details

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lbcli get volume --uuid=$VOLUME_UUID --project-name=default -o json
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Sample Output

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root@rack03-server72:~ lbcli get volume --uuid=c074cf03-83fb-4c15-a601-5444e798f51f --project-name=default -o json{"state": "Available","protectionState": "FullyProtected","replicaCount": 2,"nodeList": ["cfbfdc90-43b3-5ce6-be99-1ab4171785b0","3b7a262a-ba3f-5447-9c21-e3c8ed699f0f"],"UUID": "c074cf03-83fb-4c15-a601-5444e798f51f","nsid": 4,"acl": {"values": ["acl3"]},"compression": "true","size": "214748364800","name": "1vol","rebuildProgress": "None","statistics": {"logicalUsedStorage": "0","physicalUsedStorage": "0","compressionRatio": 1,"totalCompressionRatio": 1,"physicalCapacity": "0","physicalOwnedCapacity": "0","physicalOwnedMemory": "0","physicalMemory": "0","userWritten": "0"},"IPAcl": {"values": ["ALLOW_ANY"]},"ETag": "1","connectedHosts": ["acl3: 172.16.231.78"],"sectorSize": 4096,"projectName": "default","sourceSnapshotUUID": "","sourceSnapshotName": "","placementRestrictions": []}
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Check the basic status of the Lightbits cluster through the lbcli command line.

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lbcli list nvme-devices
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This retrieves a list of SSD devices in the cluster. The list can be filtered to list SSDs that exist in a specific server, are managed by a specific node, or are unmanaged.

Sample Output

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root@rack03-server72:~ lbcli list nvme-devicesName Size NUMA ID Serial State Server UUID Node UUIDnvme2n1 932 GiB 0 PHLF736500GM1P0GGN Healthy 20afd09a-221d-5c87-868ea64315bfbf578b980170-f941-5473-9162-36a17e866a36nvme0n1 932 GiB 0 PHLF736500H81P0GGN Healthy 20afd09a-221d-5c87-868ea64315bfbf578b980170-f941-5473-9162-36a17e866a36nvme4n1 932 GiB 1 PHLF736500JL1P0GGN Healthy 20afd09a-221d-5c87-868ea64315bfbf578b980170-f941-5473-9162-36a17e866a36nvme5n1 932 GiB 1 PHLF736500LN1P0GGN Healthy 20afd09a-221d-5c87-868ea64315bfbf578b980170-f941-5473-9162-36a17e866a36nvme3n1 932 GiB 0 PHLF736500LY1P0GGN Healthy 20afd09a-221d-5c87-868ea64315bfbf578b980170-f941-5473-9162-36a17e866a36nvme6n1 932 GiB 1 PHLF736500N41P0GGN Healthy 20afd09a-221d-5c87-868ea64315bfbf578b980170-f941-5473-9162-36a17e866a36nvme5n1 932 GiB 0 PHLF727500A91P0GGN Healthy 8c0ae9ab-0327-5978-8ce0-3f63029809cbcfbfdc90-43b3-5ce6-be99-1ab4171785b0nvme10n1 932 GiB 0 PHLF727500P21P0GGN Healthy 8c0ae9ab-0327-5978-8ce0-3f63029809cbcfbfdc90-43b3-5ce6-be99-1ab4171785b0nvme0n1 932 GiB 0 PHLF727500QC1P0GGN Healthy 8c0ae9ab-0327-5978-8ce0-3f63029809cbcfbfdc90-43b3-5ce6-be99-1ab4171785b0nvme11n1 932 GiB 0 PHLF727500RN1P0GGN Healthy 8c0ae9ab-0327-5978-8ce0-3f63029809cbcfbfdc90-43b3-5ce6-be99-1ab4171785b0nvme2n1 931 GiB 0 PHLF7284013X1P0GGN Healthy 8c0ae9ab-0327-5978-8ce0-3f63029809cbcfbfdc90-43b3-5ce6-be99-1ab4171785b0nvme7n1 932 GiB 0 PHLF728500V31P0GGN Healthy 8c0ae9ab-0327-5978-8ce0-3f63029809cbcfbfdc90-43b3-5ce6-be99-1ab4171785b0nvme0n1 14 TiB 0 BTLL850602H815PDGN Healthy bc7e65cd-984c-5abb-ae3f-a51a49dab2cb 3b7a262a-ba3f-5447-9c21-e3c8ed699f0fnvme15n1 932 GiB 1 PHLF8091006C1P0GGN Healthy bc7e65cd-984c-5abb-ae3f-a51a49dab2cb3b7a262a-ba3f-5447-9c21-e3c8ed699f0fnvme10n1 932 GiB 1 PHLF8091007H1P0GGN Healthy bc7e65cd-984c-5abb-ae3f-a51a49dab2cb3b7a262a-ba3f-5447-9c21-e3c8ed699f0fnvme9n1 932 GiB 1 PHLF8091007R1P0GGN Healthy bc7e65cd-984c-5abb-ae3f-a51a49dab2cb3b7a262a-ba3f-5447-9c21-e3c8ed699f0fnvme13n1 932 GiB 1 PHLF809100ZW1P0GGN Healthy bc7e65cd-984c-5abb-ae3f-a51a49dab2cb3b7a262a-ba3f-5447-9c21-e3c8ed699f0fnvme12n1 932 GiB 1 PHLF8091016Y1P0GGN Healthy bc7e65cd-984c-5abb-ae3f-a51a49dab2cb3b7a262a-ba3f-5447-9c21-e3c8ed699f0f
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lbcli list nodes
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This returns a list of nodes in the cluster, and information on each node.

Sample Output

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root@rack03-server72:~ lbcli list nodesName UUID State NVMe endpoint Failure domains Locaserver02-0 3b7a262a-ba3f-5447-9c21-e3c8ed699f0f Active 172.16.231.72:4420 [server02] Noneserver00-0 8b980170-f941-5473-9162-36a17e866a36 Active 172.16.231.70:4420 [server00] Noneserver01-0 cfbfdc90-43b3-5ce6-be99-1ab4171785b0 Active 172.16.231.71:4420 [server01] None
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